“I wish you would stop acting like this for once. Please, you were so kind and loving. I wish you were still like that, before all this, before everything. I wish…”

“I WISH YOU DIDN‘T EXIST”

The words hit him like I didn’t expect them to. Ricotcheting off his body and bouncing back to me as I realised the weight of what I just said.

His body slowly started fading out, the hole getting larger li...

"Please don't go. I need you." I freeze. The look on Jayden's face says all I need to know. I messed up.

"You need me?" Jayden tilts his head and raises an eyebrow.

"I shouldn't have said that." I lower my head.

"Did you mean it?"

"Yes." He'd never believe me if I said no, and he'd keep asking until I gave him an answer.

Jayden smiles. This is a new smile, one I haven't...

Jason was always a big talker. One time, he talked at a work meeting for so long that his boss fell asleep. That being said, he was always able to stay uncontroversial with what he was saying, making sure that everybody in the room was happy, albeit bored. On this special occasion, Jason was the best man at his best friend Adam's wedding. At the reception table, Jason sat next to Adam and was havi...

What did you hear?

I fear, the lears, and tears.

Not sure if you heard.

The curt, hurt, not inert....

**The Bridge**

**1970s:**

Thomas had never raised his voice at Lila. They were high school sweethearts, bound together by the gentle rhythms of their small town. But that evening, as the late summer sun dipped behind the hills, something inside him snapped.

"I can't believe you're so blind!" he yelled, the words harsh, alien on his tongue. Lila flinched, her eyes wide with shock. They had been ...

“Just get over it”

Just get over it?

Man, wish I’d thought of that first.

Wish I thought of it before the drugs and the hearse

Wish I thought of it before writing this verse

Wish I thought of it before I checked if it’d work

Dang

So it’s really that easy?

Just wake up one day and choose to be happy?

I’ve tried.

Really, I’ve tried and I’ve tried

Nothing really works

No matter how long I seem fi...

“If I ever go bad, will you kill me?”

“What?” Taylor flipped around to look at me, her worry filled eyes asking so many questions.

“It’s just that… I can feel the anger and darkness inside of me. And I can feel that it’s growing, getting stronger.”

Her tension eases and she give me an empathetic look. “Everyone gets frustrated from time to time.”

I frown at her and sit up from my laying positi...

(Character building, setting everything in place for the first big play)

School started off boring as usual, until lunch time. Xavier and Emily were already sitting at their new outside table. When Braylee and Mickey came out the doors.

“You have to be joking?” Xavier shouted out to them with a smile.

“What makes you think it’s that?” Emily questions as Xavier seems to be reading her expres...

The sun beat down on the park, dappling the path with light and shadow as I fumbled with my phone, pretending to be engrossed in a text that didn't exist. My real mission? To steal glances at the woman on the bench across the way. She was breathtaking – all cascading dark hair, a smile that could launch a thousand ships, and… well, that's where my brain short-circuited.

She stood… And it was over...

"You just never stop talking, do you?!”

Raelyn felt tears well in her eyes and the harsh sting of her knight’s words; the fact that there wasn’t even a hint of remorse in her teal yet yellowed hues made Raelyn’s heart twinge. Ren knew that Raelyn couldn’t help her rambling, it was a quirk of hers that she’d always had. Kiernan had always listened intently, so did Ren, and that cured most of the...